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		</div><p>China has launched one of two laboratory modules to complete its permanent orbiting space station.</p>
<p>The Wentian was launched from Hainan Island on Sunday, watched by a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts.</p>
<p>Designed for science and biology experiments, the module lifted off on the Long March 5B remote 3 rocket, and spent roughly eight minutes in flight before it entered orbit, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.</p>
<p>A second lab module, called the Mengtian, is due to be launched in October, and both will join the Tiangong space station.</p>
<p>Three astronauts are already living in the core module and will oversee the arrival and docking of the lab.</p>
<p>The launch is the third since the Chinese space station entered its construction phase. It was preceded by the Tianzhou-class cargo spacecraft and the Shenzhou-14 crewed spacecraft.</p>
<p>China’s space programme is run by the ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, prompting the US to exclude it from the International Space Station.</p>
<p>As a result, China largely had to work on its own in its Tiangong space station programme, building and then abandoning two experimental stations before embarking on the latest version.</p>
<p>The 23-ton lab module is heavier than any other single-module spacecraft that is currently in space, according to the state-owned Global Times.</p>
<p>China’s space programme launched its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, making it only the third country to do so on its own after the former Soviet Union and the US.</p>
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